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SUBMITTER: Stegbauer S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6220838 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20181005 44
Visible-light irradiation (λ=457 nm) enabled the enantioselective ortho photocycloaddition of olefins to phenanthrene-9-carboxaldehydes (15 examples, 46-93 % yield, 82-98 % ee). A chiral oxazaborolidine Lewis acid (20 mol %) was employed as the catalyst. It operates by coordination to the aldehyde inducing a bathochromic absorption shift beyond the nπ* absorption of the uncomplexed aldehyde. At long wavelengths the Lewis acid complex is exclusively excited; within the complex, one enantiotopic f ...[more]